Gentle Yoga Teacher Training (Studio Certified)

Explore gentle yoga as a low, slow practice focused on ground postures, breathing, and mindful body awareness. Learn to modify with props or without, supporting injuries and all levels.

This trauma informed approach to gentle inner chair yoga prioritizes safety, comfort, and inclusivity for students with physical injuries or emotional trauma through thoughtful use of props.

Set clear boundaries as a yoga teacher and refer students to doctors or physical therapists when needed, while offering rest, listening without judgment, and holding space for trauma informed care.

Teach block breathing as part of pranayama, guiding inhale-hold-exhale-hold cycles with counts and a visual aid to improve breath control and lung strength.

Master the 5-7-8 breathing pattern as a grounding pranayama technique to build lung capacity and strength. Use modifications like 6-7 breathing and offer lying down or seated options.

Perform an energetic tapping sequence from head to chest to ground students, use a light body scan, drain lymph with taps, energizing the body for warm up or cool down.

Modify the traditional abhyanga self-massage for a gentle yoga class by using warm-up and cool-down techniques that target the legs, hips, and upper body to boost circulation and lymph drainage.

Explore supine poses for hips, low back, and knees, with modification-first guidance, props like a block, and gentle bridge, twists, and wind-relieving stretches.

Guide a gentle sequence of supine twists and core work to strengthen the abdominal and back muscles. Use slow, breath-focused transitions and variations like reclined pigeon and single-leg circles.

Explore how to use straps, blocks, and bolsters in a gentle supine yoga sequence, featuring waterfall inversions and supported backbends for accessible, restorative stretches.

Explore seated yoga modifications to accommodate varied mobility using blocks, bolsters, pillows, or a chair. Learn options like hero's pose, sukhasana with elevation, butterfly variations, and open stack pose.

This simple seated stretching flow guides a full seated sequence with modifications, blocks under hips, twists, forward folds, and side bends.

Explore seated heart, hips and hamstrings with gentle stretches, neck and shoulder warm-ups, seated pigeon, butterfly, dragonfly, and forward folds using a block for modification.

Discover practical kneeling modifications for yoga students, using cushions, blankets, or towels to soften knees and wrists, and tools like blocks or bolsters to ease pressure in hero's pose.

Explore blocks and props to support kneeling heart and hip openers, guiding transitions from tabletop to kneeling splits, camel poses, and pitcher stretch in this gentle yoga teacher training video.

Learn kneeling sun salutations on the mat to warm up with earth salutations, including sun salutations A and B, with kneeling options, blocks, and gentle modifications.

Learn to teach standing poses from a gentle perspective, avoiding up and down motions and heavy postures like downward facing dog and plank; standing may be optional.

Lead a gentle standing warm-up to build balance, strength, and blood flow for seniors. Flow from mountain pose into forward folds, ragdoll, side bends, squats, and lunges.

Explore gentle standing strength postures with blocks, focusing on balance, core engagement, and safe transitions from mountain pose into warrior and triangle variations, with modifications for a gentle yoga demographic.

Master standing postures with chair support to improve balance, alignment, and core strength through modified chair pose variations, forward folds, and the warrior series, including warm-up sequences and progressive options.

This gentle standing balance video builds on strength-based postures and core strength to improve balance through warmups, tree pose, knee-to-chest, and dancer pose with accessible modifications.

Explore savasana modifications using props to support the low back and relax the body. Offer knee-bent, legs-up-the-wall, fetal, or seated options for pregnant or any student.

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Practice yoga therapy for the low back by mobilizing the lumbar spine and hips through gentle twists and using a sacrum block.

Guide gentle neck and upper back stretches to release tension, improve posture, breathing, and shoulder mobility through seated flow, neck circles, elbow squeezes, and side neck stretches.